After Mark Zuckerberg told President Trump that Meta would invest $600 billion by 2028, the CEO confessed to the president that he ‘wasn’t sure what number [Trump] wanted to go with.’
It’s not unusual for tech company CEOs to make the journey to Washington, DC, and announce billion-dollar investments to curry favor with politicians in power. Apple CEO Tim Cook was in the Oval Office last month, a piece of Apple-shaped glass and a 24-karat gold base in hand, to pledge another $100 billion in US investment over the next four years, for a total of $600 billion.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg perhaps had that number on his mind this week when he joined his fellow Silicon Valley heavy hitters at the White House for a dinner with President Trump. Zuckerberg was seated next to the president, who at one point leaned over and asked him, “How much are you spending, would you say, over the next few years?”
A flustered Zuckerberg responded, “Oh gosh, um, I mean, I think it’s probably going to be something like, at least $600 billion through '28 in the US, yeah.”
“That’s a lot, that’s a lot,” Trump said.
It is indeed. Once the discussion concluded, Zuckerberg leaned over to Trump to privately admit the president had caught him off guard. “I’m sorry I wasn’t ready…I wasn’t sure what number you wanted to go with,” Zuckerberg said in a revealing moment caught on a hot mic.
Rolling blackouts, coal ash dumped into drinking water reservoirs, fossil fuel smog thick in the air, clearcut forests that would help clean the air, and "safer nuclear,” oh and peak oil was a while ago… Rationed water that may but likely won’t, be safe for cooking, drinking or bathing…but ai surveillance and eternal war are worth it!
Why the “air quotes”? Nuclear remains the most efficient, powerful energy source, and is vastly more resilient to disaster than even before.
by what metric is nuclear the “most efficient” or “most powerful” energy source?
If you haven’t heard, coal ash, fly ash, isn’t really a thing anymore since they discovered that the ash, similar to volcanic ash, can act as a pozzolan and be used 1:1 to replace carbon intensive Portland cement for concrete, up to half off the cement mix. Since then the ash that is now valuable has been used for that instead of just being dumped. The old stuff in ponds is less useful but might be used after some light processing.
https://www.thespruce.com/fly-ash-applications-844761
https://www.concrete.org/frequentlyaskedquestions/faqid/688.aspx
Don’t forget the thrill going up every confederate’s leg because they owned the libs!
I would never encourage violence online
I would.
Play TF2. Do it. Frag your friends.
“Online”